Whether or not you can live up to 5 years with heart failure depends on the condition, with some patients surviving for long periods of time and those with severe heart failure surviving for shorter periods of time. Heart failure is a clinical syndrome with many causes. The severity of the disease varies significantly from patient to patient, and the survival time may be longer or shorter. Although some patients have heart failure, but the patient’s condition progresses relatively slowly, such as rheumatic heart disease, are able to active treatment, the patient can survive for a long time, survival time is significantly more than 5 years. Part of the patient’s condition is more serious, such as large myocardial infarction after the emergence of heart failure, the patient can be repeated heart failure, the condition is more serious, the prognosis is relatively poor, it is possible to survive within 5 years, and with the time there is a risk of sudden death. Heart failure patients should be under the guidance of a doctor to carry out regular treatment, to prevent respiratory infections, to avoid recurrent episodes of the disease, to prolong the patient’s survival time.